Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99, is a leading case in American tort law on the question of liability to an unforeseeable plaintiff. The case was heard by the New York C
The East New York station of the Long Island Rail Road, seen in 2008
Scale similar in design to the one believed to have toppled onto Helen Palsgraf
The New York Court of Appeals Building in Albany, where the case was decided
Benjamin N. Cardozo, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and author of the majority opinion in Palsgraf (pictured in 1932 upon his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court)
William Shankland Andrews
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William Shankland Andrews was an American lawyer and judge from New York.
Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.
…in American law. In dealing with proximate cause, many states have taken the approach championed by the Court of Appeals' dissenter in Palsgraf, Judge William S. Andrews. At the time of the 1928 New York Court of Appeals decision in Palsgraf, that state's case law followed a classical formation for negligence: the…
William Shankland Andrews